balinais
\ba.li.nɛ\
The verdict
“balinais” is uncommon French (frequency #79,964 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,964
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée sur l’île de Bali, en Indonésie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-balinais · balinais · French
balinais · rank #79,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,964
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH balaient
Nearest frequency peer: balaient (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « balinais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- axillaire
axillaire
20,041 corpus weight
- balaient
balaient
20,038 corpus weight
- balinais
balinais
20,037 corpus weight
- banger
banger
20,035 corpus weight
- baptista
baptista
20,034 corpus weight
- barris
barris
20,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « balinais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | balinais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.li.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « balinais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
balinais is uncommon French at frequency #79,964 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ba.li.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for balinais in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is balinais, spelled B-A-L-I-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée sur l’île de Bali, en Indonésie.
- 2Race de chat, originaire des États-Unis, voisin du siamois, mais à poil mi-long.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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